The VTOL SF6 system (vertical take-off and landing) is a UAS platform designed to perform aerial reconnaissance at a fixed point.
Especially suitable to perform flight plansin areas marked by a complex orography, it can perform timely, safe and accurate surveys.
The onboard Skyrobotic autopilot grants a precise automatic GPS navigation and allows the manual override of the multirotor at any time.
Skydirector has specific planning tools (photomosaic, photomosaic 3D, target tracking, etc.) that enable to collect accurate data in any application.

Forest fire maps are automatically-generated in real time by the algorithm every 15 minutes and updated according to the MSG-SEVIRI images acquisition time. Each pixel corresponds to a 16 kmq area (sensor resolution); this does not mean that the fire is the same area as the pixel. The absolute position of the fire, is in fact, located within the most positive hot pixel. The geolocation error is approximately 2 km.

Kenya is facing a number of serious challenges related to water resource management which include growing population, water scarcity, climate variability and water resource degradation, invasive species, water pollution. The proliferation of invasive plants and animal species in the region, including fish species and aquatic weeds, is of growing concern. In particular, some of the problems caused by aquatic weeds are herewith reported: interfere with human activities such as fishing, and boating; ; produce quiet water areas that are ideal for mosquito breeding; and impede water flow in drainage ditches, irrigation canals, and culverts, causing water to back up.

The large amount of images available today, thanks to the increasing of the number of orbiting EO satellites (Earth Observation Systems), which are able to provide information of every region of the Earth, represents an indispensable instrument for monitoring any terrestrial ecosystem. EO systems allow to detect and follow fast changing phenomena (like natural and anthropic disasters) providing the needed information for planning the necessary measures and reduce the impact of these events.

The European Volcano Observatory Space Services, (EVOSS) is an European Union science initiative, funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and using the latest European earth observation data. EVOSS is a consortium of data providers, academic institutions and government bodies whose aim is to develop techniques allowing the monitoring of volcanic hazards on a global scale. Due to the unpredictable nature of active volcanic areas, repeat ground-based monitoring has special challenges concerning accessibility and terrain instability. The EVOSS project demonstrates how real-time operational monitoring can be enhanced by satellite remote sensing.

Kenya is facing a number of serious challenges related to water resource management which include growing population, water scarcity, climate variability and water resource degradation, invasive species, water pollution. The proliferation of invasive plants and animal species in the region, including fish species and aquatic weeds, is of growing concern. In particular, some of the problems caused by aquatic weeds are herewith reported: interfere with human activities such as fishing, and boating; ; produce quiet water areas that are ideal for mosquito breeding; and impede water flow in drainage ditches, irrigation canals, and culverts, causing water to back up.

The growing availability of multi-temporal satellite data has increased opportunities for monitoring large rivers from space. A variety of passive and active sensors operating in the visible and microwave range are currently operating, or planned, which can estimate inundation area and delineate flood boundaries.

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is defined as the one sided green leaf area per unit ground area in broadleaf canopies, or as the projected needleleaf area per unit ground area in needle canopies. When derived from satellite imagery, LAI is commonly used for regional to global vegetation monitoring, and is often a component in calculations of carbon, photosynthesis, evapotranspiration, and net primary production.

Kenya is facing a number of serious challenges related to water resource management which include growing population, water scarcity, climate variability and water resource degradation, invasive species, water pollution. The proliferation of invasive plants and animal species in the region, including fish species and aquatic weeds, is of growing concern. In particular, some of the problems caused by aquatic weeds are herewith reported: interfere with human activities such as fishing, and boating; ; produce quiet water areas that are ideal for mosquito breeding; and impede water flow in drainage ditches, irrigation canals, and culverts, causing water to back up.

The laboratory is focused on the development of innovative applications of satellite/aerial optical (multi- and hyper-spectral) and SAR imagery covering a wide range of fields of interest, as fire monitoring, volcanic eruptions and ash cloud monitoring, oil spill monitoring, environmental monitoring including the development of applications related to security. The laboratory is oriented in particular to the development of automatic applications based on real-time approaches.

Scientific coordinator: Professor Giovanni Laneve

Equipped with software and hardware instruments, and with a wide dataset of satellite images including low as well as very high spatial resolution, both optical and radar, the laboratory relies on two satellite image acquisition systems: one located in Rome, and another one in the Broglio Space Center in Malindi, Kenya.

Rome Station acquires images from SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager), on board Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite, and images from MODIS and AVHRR satellites, while Malindi Station could acquire high resolution images (Landsat, CBERS, etc.)

Godan supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security.

A Shapefile is a digital vector (non-topological) storage format for storing geometric location and associated attribute information. The Shapefile format is created by ArcView and can be used by ArcView, ARC/INFO, ArcGIS and other widely used GIS software.